ON the 24th of October my Time Machine hard drive stopped backing up.
I didn’t realise for over a week because I assumed it was all fine. The gear was spinning every hour, but I didn’t notice that for the whole spinning period, it was ‘preparing’ and not backing anything up.
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APPLE today announced it’s annual film festival which will commence on the 15th of November.
The Insomnia Film Festival is a 24 hour event where certain elements are given such as location, props, character names and style.
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APPLE fans (and curious PC users) have been waiting for the time to come, and it did. Yesterday at around 4am AEDST Apple announced a new rejuvenated line of it’s notebooks.
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IN my last post, I talked about the seemingly inevitable release of new refreshes of Apple’s MacBook line, and finally we have seen some official evidence for this. Today Apple sent out invitations for selected members of the press to attend a special event on October 14th at Apple’s Town Hall or their Campus in Cupertino. The name of this event is “The spotlight turns to notebooks.”
TO people outside the Mac universe, it might be hard to fathom the inherent excitement around the release of a new laptop (mainly because there are hundreds of new models being released every day around the world) but it is also that there is something very exciting about the release of new Apple laptops, but what? Well, they are the only Macs of that form factor, and they are very pretty too!
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HP has recently launched a new service called SnapFish, which you may or may not have heard of.
It’s an online service where you can upload photos from your camera onto an album, and choose to get the photos printed out in a range from 4×6 to 8×10 on high quality, photographic paper.
It’s also very easy to upload from a Mac or a PC using their QuickUpload software, and is a simple to use service overall, with great turnarounds on prints.
HP is doing a SnapFish promotion at the moment, where you can upload up to four photos of your family where you can then optionally use their ‘Imagination Station’ to overlay images of accessories, hats and other fun attire using their online tools.
It’s a fun, kid-friendly website that is easy to use and really fun.
You can get started at HP’s Website
- Adam
The social micro-blogging Website Twitter has gotten more than its fair share of press over the length of its popularity, and seems to be one of the most popular places on the web for techlebrities, as it continues to be constantly plugged’ on Websites, Podcasts and now by genuine word of mouth.
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iinet release Naked DSL that COUNTS uploads
Ultra-Portable Mac Expected @ Macworld 2008
LG Voyager, yet another iPhone lookalike?
Seiko Epson shows off UXGA e-paper displays

DVD Forum approves 51GB triple layer HD DVD Spec

Sony sends PS3 1st Birthday cakes to press

Amazon to release “Kindle” e-book reader Monday (for 399US) (has wi-fi for Amazon e-book sevice)
Anti-P2P college bill advances in US Congress
16gb flash Zune (and no-one, especially Aussies can get it)
54% of computer users admit to stealing wi-fi
20% of high school students would give up their right to vote for an iPod Touch (US) (Of course)
Lego Master working on 100,000 piece 21 Foot Battle Ship
The list of stuff we hate from the show that we do (and out of it). This’ll be a weekly updated thing, and if we find anything in between the shows that we just hate, we’ll add them here too.
1. Windows, Mac and Linux Fanboys. It’s a derogatory term, but seriously, people who post anonymously on forums that say for example “Linux iz the s#%^ d00dz, WinDOZE is a pile of c#$%”. No one likes you.
2. People who post on engadget posts that simply say “FIRST POST!!!”. Big deal, at least you get *lowest ranked*.
3. Dumb people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Seriously. Example: “I hate ‘macks’ cos they only got one mouse button”. It’s the 21st century. Apple isn’t dumb anymore.
4. Microsoft’s inability to make their OS experience enjoyable. Why do I cringe when I use I PC? Why is Vista the reason I cry at night?
5. Digg users. People say s*** they wouldn’t usually say, but they literally hyperventilate when their smarmy comment gets a +1. So much meaningless stuff gets thrown around on that comments page. Endless.
6. Bloggers. 95% of bloggers don’t have an audience. Why do you bother to write anything? I know that probably around four people will read this, and 3 of them are related to the podcast. The other one is my sister.
7. People who in comments pages say something completely derogatory or incorrect (mostly on Digg) and then say “Ooooh, fanboys Digg me down”, because they know in their tiny minds that the last thing people want to do is prove someone’s point, so the comment is left unharmed. Then, the people who agree Digg up. Clever.
8. Myspace pages. The amount of time I could have saved if Myspace didn’t exist. Everyone knows the story, you go to a page, the guy has an emo theme where all the writing is black. It starts blaring out Metallica, but you don’t like Metallica, now you look for the player, but the theme makes the page go 25,000 pixels wide. You find the player and stop the music, but 17 youtube videos start playing. You hit CommandQ (ALT F4). You cry.
9. Me too websites. Hmm? See this blog post? We don’t need another fraking list about the problems with the internet, huh! Doing it anyway, cos I feel like it. Do we need another tech podcast? No, but we wanted to do one, know what? I hate me.
10. American accents. I need to stop listening to podcasts, because everyone has an American accent. Bet you Americans don’t mind, but it affects the way I talk. I don’t want to say “a” like “aaah”, but “ahhh”. Minor point, yes, probably my own fault, but can you tone the accent down a touch.
11. lol. rofl. lmao. I know for a fact you are not laughing out loud, rolling on the floor laughing, or laughing your arse off.
12. Anything spelt wrong. In fact, I’m going insane. Firefox says spelt isn’t a word, then halfway through that sentence, it corrects itself, but by that time, it looks wrong to me. You know the feeling.
13. Imageshack. I have never actually seen an imageshack image that has not used more than its allowed bandwidth. They also need a new frog.
Sorry the show is so late this week, and this is because Chris and I have not been able to get in contact with Ben, so either his internet is down or he’s on some sort of grounding/punishment from his computer. So hopefully the show should be up soon? We don’t know. k. Thx.
Adam
Update: Episode 2 should be up on the feed shortly. Ben has been unwell plus the stress of a new school term (Year 12, HSC year!). It still needs some editing before it can be uploaded.
Chris
